Rachel Buurma received her BA from Swarthmore College and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research interests include Victorian literature and culture, the history of the novel, literary and cultural theory, and the history of material texts. She is currently working on her first book, The History of Omniscience: Narration and Literary Authority in Victorian Print Culture and the Victorian Novel and is beginning a second project titled Victorian Archival Imaginaries. She is the project manager of the University of Pennsylvania Library's Transatlantic Fiction Project and has been the recipient of a fellowship from the American Association of University Women.